Course Materials

Below are selected data sources and learning resources that are useful for undergraduate study in economics.

Principles of Microeconomics

Notes and Practices Questions:

• PPF: Practice Question

Useful Data Sources:

• Consumer Expenditure Survey (BLS)
  Household consumption patterns for demand analysis and welfare evaluation.

• American Community Survey (ACS)
  Income, education, demographics, and labor market outcomes at the household level.

Principles of Macroeconomics

Useful Data Sources:

• FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
  Time series for GDP, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, and money supply.

• World Bank – World Development Indicators (WDI)
  Cross-country macroeconomic data on growth, poverty, inflation, and government spending.

• IMF Data
  Balance of payments, exchange rates, fiscal data, and global economic outlook databases.

• OECD Data
  High-quality macroeconomic indicators for advanced economies.

• U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
  Official U.S. data on GDP, national income, consumption, and investment.

• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
  Employment, unemployment, inflation (CPI, PPI), and wage statistics.

• U.S. Census Bureau
  Demographics, income, population, and economic surveys.

Intermediate Microeconomics

• MIT OpenCourseWare – Intermediate Microeconomics
  Lecture notes, problem sets, and exams for intermediate microeconomics courses.

• Varian – Intermediate Microeconomics (Supplementary Materials)
  Problem-solving and intuition-building materials aligned with Varian’s textbook.